Sentences with phrase «conservation movement in»

They want to co-teach a unit about the history of national parks and the birth of the conservation movement in the United States.

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The «calm conservation» vision of the Church which is so prevalent in certain circles today comes under direct challenge by the movements» vision of a missionary Church courageously projected toward new frontiers.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

The main objectives, apart from helping organic agriculture enhance biodiversity, have been to start cooperation and dialogue between the nature conservation and organic agricultural movements and to spread knowledge about biodiversity in organic agriculture.

«This has been a remarkable 19 - year journey during which the League has been at the forefront of spurring unprecedented administrative and legislative actions to protect our environment and affirm New York's rightful place at the vanguard of the conservation and environmental protection movement in America,» Bystryn said.

Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), a longtime opponent of the natural gas drilling method and ranking minority member of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, said the poll showed a grassroots movement against hydrofracking is resonating in New York.

In 2012, CI scientists repeatedly observed this peculiar situation, and in 2015 opportunistically deployed the world's first fin - mounted archival satellite tags on wild whale sharks prior to their release — resulting in a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in IndonesiIn 2012, CI scientists repeatedly observed this peculiar situation, and in 2015 opportunistically deployed the world's first fin - mounted archival satellite tags on wild whale sharks prior to their release — resulting in a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in Indonesiin 2015 opportunistically deployed the world's first fin - mounted archival satellite tags on wild whale sharks prior to their release — resulting in a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in Indonesiin a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in Indonesiin Indonesia.

«Jaguar scat study suggests restricted movement in areas of conservation importance in Mesoamerica: Noninvasive genetic survey on wild Mesoamerican jaguars is largest of its kind, reveals conservation priority.»

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

Burgess and his colleagues assembled a 10 - member team with expertise in all facets of shark biology: demography, population dynamics, life history, tagging and movements, fishery biology and conservation, and mathematical modeling.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.

The conservation movement was in its infancy; President Theodore Roosevelt and federal forester Gifford Pinchot had just created the first publicly owned «forest reserves,» the precursor to the national forest system.

It is in every species that lives today thanks to the conservation movement that gained traction from her death.

My time in Mauritius was a true crash course in the nation's proud conservation movement.

A November 2014 comment piece in the journal Nature points to the dominance of male voices in the conservation movement, despite the presence of senior women.

By engaging entire communities in conservation, he hopes to help create a movement around sustainability in Puerto Rico, now and into the future.

However — and I used this example for a purpose — the conservation movement has its origins in the work of artists and photographers such as Ansel Adams who were key to showing the wonders of the natural landscape.

Restoration of building services in school buildings are common place and there is a complex relationship between building services, energy efficiency, air and moisture movement and the conservation of existing building stock.

SALT LAKE CITY — A states» rights, public lands movement with its genesis in Utah was blasted by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday as an effort that threatens to undo the successes of American conservation policy.

Vivid, moment - by - moment descriptions of life in the field will draw readers into this biography of pioneering environmentalist Schaller, a founder of the modern animal conservation movement.

In the process, he explores the ethical and religious bases of the conservation movement and deflates the myth that environmental policy is antithetical to economic growth by illustrating how new methods of conservation can ensure long - term economic well - being.

I came because of your stature in literature and the conservation movement.

The unique experience, which allows visitors to take an active role in the elephant conservation movement, includes learning about the medical care and day - to - day life of elephants.

The importance of Muir Woods in the early conservation movement is best understood by considering those who made the decision to protect the area from destruction.

President Roosevelt wanted to name the Monument after Kent, but Kent insisted that it be named after John Muir, his good friend in the conservation movement who had helped establish the National Park System.

This was one of the most memorable moments in Australia's conservation movement.

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His involvement with the land transcended his photographs and he became a central figure in the national conservation movement at a time when growing industry began to threaten the nation's natural resources.

It provides opportunities for communities to participate in a global movement for the conservation, preservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.

Just to put that in some scale, that's doubling what the modern conservation movement was able to do in the last 100 years, essentially.

Check out one of our sister sites and see how we're working to engage all kinds of people around the globe in the conservation movement.

«Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, recently declared «the death of environmentalism,» generating quite a buzz... Whether or not environmentalism is dead, dying, or in some kind of undead zombie state, new voices within the environmental and conservation movements are arguing for a wholly new kind of movement that entails recovering values of another, more conservative America.

Smoking Them Out shines a much needed light on the path to a sustainable future for America and all our future generations; taking back the high ground, doing the right thing, and becoming a leader in a new conservation movement.

Continuing its place as a leader in the organic products industry's climate movement, Straus Family Creamery's innovative programs range from resilient packaging and water conservation to carbon - free energy and electric vehicle usage.

Conservations Hawks» role in this is to get the country's 37m active hunters and anglers to become part of the grassroots movement.

In 1900, in the early days of the American conservation movement, ornithologist Frank Chapman organized a Christmas bird censuIn 1900, in the early days of the American conservation movement, ornithologist Frank Chapman organized a Christmas bird censuin the early days of the American conservation movement, ornithologist Frank Chapman organized a Christmas bird census.

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, launched the conservation movement early in the last century, and, responding to cough - inducing smog and rivers catching on fire, President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Guardian reports that the National Trust — a conservation charity that owns 1.5 % of England, Wales and Northern Ireland — is to jump on the bandwagon reinvent itself by turning its membership into «the largest green movement in the world».

«Only with such site - specific data on bird movements will we be able to assess the potential risks to marine and migratory birds from offshore wind farms, providing essential data for developing effective conservation strategies for birds and offshore wind energy development in the Northeast.»

Now, more than 40 years later, the program is still one of the forerunners of the green movement: Students have won awards including the Udall Scholarship in Environmental Policy and the Fulbright Grant; author Bill McKibben worked with six students to create the Step It Up movement in 2007; and students can choose specialties including conservation biology, environmental policy, religion, philosophy, and the environment.

Birds like great egrets were hunted nearly to extinction; but just in the nick of time, conservation movements were sparked, as well as some of the first laws to protect birds.

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»

For wide - ranging, low - density species like the tiger, conservation planning at the landscape level is necessary, landscapes need to remain permeable to tiger movements, and source sites have to remain embedded in those larger landscapes.

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

The project found that understanding the water movements of the different types of wetlands can enhance forest engineering to improve wetland flow, which in turn helps improve biodiversity conservation.

The future of children in nature has profound implications not only for the conservation of land but also for the direction of the environmental movement.

That may be an obvious statement for regular followers of renewable energy news, and of the green movement in general, but a new study published in Conservation Biology illustrates just how important intact tropical forests are in slowing climate change.

Financial incentives and awards have been made available to authorities who clamp down, and a small but increasingly vocal conservation movement has cropped up in the giant nation.